Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For April 17, 2018 On the RINO front, 7 term “Republican” Congressman Dent announced that
he would be leaving Congress in a few weeks; on the slow walking front, Rod
Rosenstein has missed the deadline imposed by Congress to turn over the Comey
memos that were leaked by Comey to Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman
as part of Comey’s plan to get a special counsel appointed (it is an outrage
that memos were leaked to find their way into the The New York Times but Congress dealing with its Constitutional
authority to exercise oversight is being frustrated by the FBI and should merit
contempt of Congress with Rosenstein being jailed and/or impeached); on the
unfriendly skies front, a Southwest Airlines’ flight from La Guardia to Dallas
experienced a jet engine failure, killing one passenger and causing it to be
diverted to Philadelphia to land safely; Comey hits the book tour circuit today
while continuing to slam the president as being unfit (if the leaked Comey
memos contained classified material, this spineless coward could and should be
facing jail time); SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that federal law which authorized automatic
deportation for those convicted of “crimes of violence” was vague and therefore
unenforceable with Justice Gorsuch joining the liberal members of SCOTUS
(change the law by setting forth crimes that merit deportation so we can remove
these scumbags once they have served their sentences); Moonbeam is back in the
news as backlash in California builds over the idiocy of California’s sanctuary
status law by slamming low life politicians who oppose the idea of keeping our
communities safe (only a true low life like Moonbeam would be able to identify
Reds as low lives); Stormy Daniels appeared on the clueless The View with a sketch of a man she alleged
approached her and threatened her if she told anyone about her affair with
Donald Trump (when will MSM come to the realization that people are more
concerned with pocket book issues that Trump is solving?); in Chicago through
April 16, 2018, 627 people have been shot, of whom 105 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Elvis
Presley; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you have
reasons to maffick your accomplishments and a relevant quote by Jennifer Garner
on the importance of education, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
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1. World Malbec Day—commemorating the
decision by the President of Argentina on this day in 1853 to hire French soil
expert Michel Pouget to bring over from France new vines to transform Argentina’s
wine industry; one of the vines brought over from France was Malbec which
flourished in Argentina and produced wine superior to that produced by the vine
in France.
2. World Hemophilia Day—created
by the World Federation of Hemophilia founded by Frank Schnabel in 1963 to
promote awareness of the disease affecting some 400,000 people worldwide many of
whom afflicted by it have no awareness of having the disease and therefore do
not seek treatment.
3. 1962 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1962 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Good
Luck Charm” by Elvis Presley. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gx4kPDW0w
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “maffick” which means to celebrate in a boisterous and hilarious manner the Reds will
do if against expectations of the Blues they keep control of the House of
Representatives.
5. What’s In Your
Wallet—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1972 of noted actress Jennifer Garner and great spokesperson
for Capital One with her signature question “What’s in your wallet?”
On
this day in:
a. 1524 Italian
explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano under the employ of the King Francis I of
France entered New York harbor (the Verrazano Narrows Bridge) connecting the Buroughs
of Brooklyn and Staten Island is named after him although his name is misspelled).
b. 1907 the Ellis Island immigration center processed a record
number of immigrants, 11,747 in one day.
c. 1961 a group of some 1500 Cuban exiles trained and financed
by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs in the hope that the Cubans would rise up
and join them to overthrow Castro which they did not and the invasion was
crushed by the Cuban military in three days.
d. 1969 Sirhan
Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy after he had won the
California primary on June 5, 1968 and would have been the Democratic nominee
for President of the United States and is today rotting away in prison with
another parole hearing scheduled for 2021.
e. 2014 in a we
may not be alone moment, NASA’s Kepler Satellite launched on March 7,
2009 confirmed the first Earth sized planet in the habitable zone of another
star.
Reflections on the importance of education in improving one’s lot in
life: “My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in
one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through
education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his
way out through education.” Jennifer Garner Could not agree more which makes it
so disappointing to see how urban public schools are totally failing in their mission
to educate inner city youths who drop out like flies and end up far too often in
gangs and/or prison. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my
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© April 17, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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